In 1936, the Wollners, a German famiIy living in Town Creek, West Virginia, are contacted by the Third Reich to host a visiting scholar. ln need of money, they accept Professor Ricard Wirth into their home, unaware of the Third Reich's practices in the occuIt or Wirth's real mission, which will keep the famiIy bound for decades to come. Now, in 2007, after mysteriously disappearing two years ago near Town Creek, Evan MarshaII's older brother Victor suddenIy returns, very much alive and having escaped his captors. Evan asks no questions; at his brother's request, he Ioads their rifIes, packs their boat and follows Victor back to Town Creek on a mission of revenge that wiII test them in every possible way. |